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486 DX2-80 - A trip down memory lane
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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 309745"><p>If I had a dollar for every dollar I invested in computers, I be off on a world tour. My kickstart was a TRS-80 model 1. That went to an IMSAI with two floppies. Each of the floppy drives originally cost more than a computer today and that was in dollars that carried a lot less inflation along.</p><p></p><p>But, it also gave me the skills to make a living from it back in CP/M and then DOS days and a lot more personal gratification than my former work. There were times I saw the sun rise that revealed I put in an all-nighter without realizing it. That's isn't typical with a day job. </p><p></p><p>Doing things like rewriting the BIOS to get a piece of hardware going right isn't something anyone thinks about these days. It was primitive but solving a problem was so fulfilling. After decades of appliances, you couldn't drive me back there either. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>As to games, my first was Colossal Cave. Meet you at twisty passages and be sure you know the magic word. (Text mode game -- drew maps -- it is still around to download for current systems -- the original was written in Fortran)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 309745"] If I had a dollar for every dollar I invested in computers, I be off on a world tour. My kickstart was a TRS-80 model 1. That went to an IMSAI with two floppies. Each of the floppy drives originally cost more than a computer today and that was in dollars that carried a lot less inflation along. But, it also gave me the skills to make a living from it back in CP/M and then DOS days and a lot more personal gratification than my former work. There were times I saw the sun rise that revealed I put in an all-nighter without realizing it. That's isn't typical with a day job. Doing things like rewriting the BIOS to get a piece of hardware going right isn't something anyone thinks about these days. It was primitive but solving a problem was so fulfilling. After decades of appliances, you couldn't drive me back there either. :) As to games, my first was Colossal Cave. Meet you at twisty passages and be sure you know the magic word. (Text mode game -- drew maps -- it is still around to download for current systems -- the original was written in Fortran) [/QUOTE]
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